Meant To Be Together

CHAPTER 1

Sunlight beamed into the room through a white translucent curtain falling straight on a girl's face. She hid her face in her pillow to prevent the sunlight so that she could grab some more sleep. Her phone that was kept on the night stand started buzzing. Getting irritated by her ringtone, she picked up the call.

"Hello?" she said lazily.

"Where are you? Have you left for the airport or not? Don't tell me that you are still sleeping on a sleepy head", A girl barked from the other side of the phone, but it didn't affect the other girl as she was still sleeping soundly, keeping her phone near her ears.

"PURVI?" the girl shouted her name from the other side of the phone, making her wake up with a jolt.

"What yaar Ishi?" Purvi said, rubbing her eyes.

"Have you reached the airport? Look at the time Pari. It was already 9:30 and you had a flight to catch at 10:15". Purvi looked at the wall clock hung in front of her and Ishita was right. She was running late. She said a quick good bye to Ishita and rushed inside the washroom to get ready.

After grabbing all her stuff, she left for the airport. Fortunately, she had booked a cab before getting ready. Somehow, she was able to catch the flight. After traveling for almost an hour, she landed in Goa.

She was way too excited as her dream of seeing her best friend getting married was coming true. She and Ishita were childhood friends. They had both literally grown up together and now Ishita was getting married to the love of her life. They both had Dushyant Arora. He and Ishita were school sweethearts.

Purvi never really went well with Dushyant in their school days as she thought that he would cheat on Ishita one day or the other, but she was shocked when he proposed to Ishita for marriage at a school reunion party. She was happy for her best friend and had now started liking Dushyant as well. Finally, after an hour, she landed in Goa.

As soon as she entered the resort, she was engulfed in a warm hug by her bestie. Without wasting a single moment, she hugged her back. They were both meeting each other after almost 2 long months. Last, they met each other at Ishita's engagement and, after that, their work kept them super busy.

"Welcome Miss. COO. I can't tell you, Pari, how happy I am to know that you finally got the post you deserve", Ishita said, pulling back from the hug.

"Thank you Ishi and I can't tell you how happy I am to see that you are finally getting married to the love of your life", Purvi said, with a big smile on her face.

Purvi met Ishita's and Dushyant's family and greeted them.

"By the way, how is everyone at home?" Ishita asked.

"Everyone is good. I am going to Delhi from here to meet them. Life has been so busy for the past few months that I am not even able to talk to Maa and Viv nicely", Purvi explained.

"I understand. Why don't you call them Mumbai?" Ishita asked.

"You know, Maa doesn't like traveling at all and Viv is also busy with his work. Ayush is also having his exams. I don't think it's good to disturb him," Purvi said.

Before Ishita could say anything else, someone came and hugged Purvi from behind.

"OMG! Purvi Chaudhary is finally here!" the boy said. Purvi broke the hug to see who dared to hug her like that. Looking at the boy's face, she couldn't recognise him.

"First, I am Purvi Mathur, not Chaudhary, and I am sorry, but who are you?"

"Please stop joking. I know you remember me", the boy said, but soon he noticed that she was looking at him with a confused look on her face.

"Come on Purvi, don't you remember me? Aman- Aman Mehra? Last bench? Roses? Chocolates?"

"Oh! Aman the creepy guy who used to follow me everywhere in the school?" As soon as the words slipped from her mouth she realised what she had said. She could see Aman's smile fading away.

"Sorry!" she said sheepily.

After having a quick chat with him, she and Ishita again started moving towards her room when she stopped in her tracks after seeing a very similar face. It was none other than Kavin. He was talking to a girl and a big smile was present on his face.

"What happened? Why did you stop walking?" Ishita asked her friend who was now a few steps behind her. She followed her gaze and found that she was staring at him and the girl whom he was talking to. "Stop staring at Pari. I know Kavin is hot and handsome, but that doesn't mean you will stare at him."

"Handsome my foot. What is he doing here?" Purvi asked without removing her eyes from him.

"Talking to a girl?" Ishita said and Purvi gave her an annoying look. "Sorry sorry, Kavin is Dushyant's best friend."

"WHAT!" Purvi was shocked.

"Yaa, but why are you shocked? Don't tell me he is the same Kavin from your college", Ishita asked her.

"Yes, he is the same Kavin from my college." Purvi said and Ishita burst into fits of laughter.

"I must say it's going to be fun to see you both together", Ishita said, laughing.

"Shut up Ishi!" Purvi said, and then she turned to see Kavin again and found that he was coming towards them.

"Hii Ishita!" Kavin said and gave her a side hug. Ishita very warmly wished him back. He then turned towards Purvi with a smirk on his face.

"Hii hamster!" Kavin said.

"Don't you dare call me that" Purvi gritted her teeth.

"Wow, still not so friendly behaviour, but I will call you a hamster because you look like one". Kavin shrugged his shoulders.

"You know what? You aren't even worth the calories I burn talking to you. I don't wish to spoil my friend's wedding, so it will be better if you don't show me your face again", Purvi said, and left towards her room.

"I am sorry, Kavin, on behalf of Pari. Trust me, she is not like that. She talks to you rudely because she thinks that you are a playboy", Ishita explained.

"No problem, Ishita, and you don't have to be sorry and trust me, I will change her thinking towards me" he said, putting his hands in his pants pockets.

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